Day: January 6, 2021

Army jawan held on charges of supplying heroin in HP

4:42 pm January 6, 2021

Shimla: A 27-year-old Army jawan has been arrested on the charges of supplying heroin in Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu district, a police official said on Wednesday. Sandeep Kumar Rathi, a resident of Shekhupur Majri village in Haryana’s Gurgaon, was held with another man identified as Hemant after 69 gram of heroin were recovered from their possession […]

Thai protest leader on hunger strike given IV drip in prison

Prisoner dies in Noida after ‘chest pain’

4:36 pm January 6, 2021

Noida (UP): A 63-year-old inmate of a jail here died at a hospital where he was taken following breathlessness, chest pain and shivering, officials said on Wednesday. Munawwar was sentenced to life imprisonment in a murder case in 2012 in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district and was transferred to the Luksar jail in 2018, prison officials […]

Farmer hangs self over financial woes

4:32 pm January 6, 2021

Banda (UP): A 45-year-old farmer committed suicide in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district following financial hardships, police said on Wednesday. Kallu, a resident of Godhani village in Tindwari block, owed Rs 38,000 to a bank and he was worried in the absence of any work, an officer quoted the farmer’s wife as saying. He hanged himself […]

Rains lash Punjab, Haryana

4:28 pm January 6, 2021

Chandigarh: The minimum temperatures stayed above normal levels in Punjab and Haryana on Wednesday following rains in both the states. Chandigarh, the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, recorded its low at 13.6 degrees Celsius, eight degrees above normal, an official of the India Meteorological Department said here. In Haryana, Ambala, Hisar and Karnal recorded […]

Rajasthan records three more Covid deaths, 55 new cases

India detects total 71 cases of the new UK mutant strain

4:19 pm January 6, 2021

New Delhi: The number of people who have tested positive for the new UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 in the country has climbed to 71, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday. These 71 cases include the 58 which were announced by the ministry till Tuesday. “The total number of cases infected with the new strain […]